The noun CONTINENTAL DIVIDE has 1 sense: 1. the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico). Familiarity information: CONTINENTAL DIVIDE used as a noun is very rare.Dictionary entry details.eronyms (parts of continental divide): Great Divide (that part of the continental divide formed by the Rocky Mountains in the United States). Domain region: North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama).
Definition of lighthouse. 1  1 : a structure (such as a tower) with a powerful light that gives a continuous or intermittent signal to navigators. 2  2 : beacon 3.
noun. 1 A phosphorescent light seen hovering or floating at night on marshy ground, thought to result from the combustion of natural gases. Example sentences. 1  Pale blue light, the colour of Egewe's hair or a will-o'-the-wisp, filled the room.rigin. Early 17th century: originally as Will with the wisp, the sense of wisp being 'handful of (lighted) hay'. More. jack from Late Middle English: In the Middle Ages Jack, a pet form of John, was used to refer to any ordinary man, much as Tom, Dick, and Harry is today.